HomeStart, a Boston-based nonprofit dedicated to ending and preventing homelessness in the greater Boston area, recently announced that Lois Cornell of Natick has joined its board of directors.

Cornell is currently the senior vice president of human resources and general counsel at Tufts Health Plan.

Cornell has been with Tufts Health Plan since 1991 and has also served as assistant vice president/deputy general counsel in the corporate compliance office and assistant general counsel.

Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan, she was an associate at Goodwin Procter in Boston where she concentrated in corporate and nonprofit law.

Cornell has a B.A. degree from Macalester College and a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. She completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

She is also a member of the Boston Bar Association, American Bar Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans and the American Health Lawyers Association. She also serves on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, UMass Memorial Medical Center where she currently chairs the governance committee, and the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.

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Dr. Matthew Fickie of Natick recently joined Mount Auburn Hospital’s Department of Internal Medicine, following the completion of his fellowship in clinical genetics through Harvard Medical School’s Genetic Training Program.

Fickie received his medical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Missouri where he was a chief resident.

Fickie currently splits his time between the Cambridge-based hospital and Mount Auburn Healthcare at 355 Waverley Oaks Road, Waltham.

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SmartBear Software, a Beverly-based provider of software quality tools used by more than one million developers and testers worldwide, recently named Diane A. Albano of Sudbury executive vice president and chief revenue officer.

Albano has more than 30 years of sales experience She has led numerous high-performance sales teams at every level, including Deltek Inc., SoundBite Communications, Workscape Inc., Fast (a subsidiary of Microsoft), Progress Software, Thomson NETG, Aspen Technology and Genuity.

She spent 17 years at Digital Equipment Corp. as a top sales performer, managing key, global accounts

Albano has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts and attended the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development.